Board-certified internist, seven years at a large IDN, four years running a private weight-medicine panel. Wrote the Nuvora clinical handbook; still reviews a fraction of every week's intakes herself.
§ 01Origin
Filed under → Oakland, CA · June 12, 2024
Nuvora began with a refund request — the one a friend filed after a quarterly auto-renew for a GLP-1 she’d never been asked about, from a clinician whose name she’d never learned.
Three months into treatment she’d lost weight, gained hair loss, and had a question about side effects that sat unread in a chat window for nine days. When she asked to speak to a clinician, the reply came from a shared inbox. When she asked for her lab history, the reply came from a different shared inbox.
This is not a story about a bad company. It is a story about a category that optimized for the prescription and forgot the person. We thought modern care could be the opposite — a clinician you could name, a plan you could read, a reply you could count on. Nuvora is our attempt to build that.
Founded
March 2025
Licensed
46 states
Team size
28
First member
April 2025
Backed by
Individual clinicians, mostly
§ 02Why Nuvora is not the others
The industry we entered made specific choices. We made different ones.
DimensionThe typical telehealth playbookNuvora
Who writes your plan
A rotating pool of clinicians; your answers get templated.
One named clinician; the same name on every reply.
Time to first response
3–7 days, sometimes via a shared inbox.
Within 24 hours. A person, not a macro.
What you can buy
An escalating ladder of add-ons, each more urgent than the last.
One plan. Zero upsells. Supplements are mostly not recommended.
When you're declined
Rare — declines reduce conversion.
Roughly one in four. We'd rather lose the customer than issue the wrong plan.
What "cancellation" looks like
A dark pattern, a chat bot, a retention offer.
One click in your portal. Takes effect the end of the month. Done.
How we get paid
Per prescription, often with supply-side kickbacks.
A flat membership. The clinician's pay is not tied to what they write.
§ 03The two who signed the lease
Small company. Specific people. No executive team page longer than this one.
§ 04Care team & advisors
Licensed, named, reachable. The person who writes your plan is the person who reads your reply.
Dr. S. Ramanathan, MD
Associate, Metabolic
Chris V., FNP-BC
Lead nurse, Intake
Terri L., RD
Registered dietitian
Dr. D. Patel, MD
Associate, Weight
Clinical advisory council
Dr. Angela Horowitz, MD
Bariatric endocrinology · UCSF alum
Dr. Reza Mahmoudi, MD, MPH
Public health · Formerly CDC obesity policy
Dr. Nadia Grant, MD
Women's metabolic health · Boston
Kenji Tanaka, PharmD
Compounding pharmacy oversight



